[TriLUG] Code of Conduct

[William Sutton]

I tend to side with those who think that we should be grown-ups and not 
need to have proper social behavior dictated to us.  I don't want to sound 
like a troll (does that mean I do...?) but do we really want to turn 
TriLUG into a police state?

If the objective is to keep "notable" members from unsubscribing, then we 
may never succeed.  As I understand it, the recent unsubscriptions 
(JasonF, for example) were from people who didn't like what they perceived 
as off-topic list traffic, not from people being abusive, untoward, or 
otherwise socially disrespectful.  In other words, nothing in the proposed 
CoC addresses what I understand to be the main reason for the 
unsubscriptions.

I don't get to vote on stuff (non-NC resident, can't make it to the 
meetings, etc), but if someone wants to vote NO for me, by all means, do.

-- 
William Sutton


On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:

> James Olin Oden wrote:
> > On 8/13/07, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
> 
> > Alan you took the word right out of my mouth.  Honestly if you need a
> > code of conduct for your members to resolve issues amongst themselves
> > then this organization is doomed.
> > 
> 
> There is a general need though to "grow up" a little bit.  We have had 
> some important unsubscriptions and I'd like to be able to point people 
> to the list without having to explain "oh they're not really a bunch of 
> sophomoric frat kids".  Not arguing for whatever but a plea to my fellow 
> members for a little more self control generally so that we can further 
> our mission of furthering linux and open source generally and expand and 
> diversify our club (I'd like to tear down the "boyz only" sign for 
> instance).
>